What does photography mean?
Definitions for photography
fəˈtɒg rə fipho·tog·ra·phy
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Princeton's WordNet
photography, picture takingnoun
the act of taking and printing photographs
photographynoun
the process of producing images of objects on photosensitive surfaces
photographynoun
the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies
Wiktionary
photographynoun
The art and technology of producing images on photosensitive surfaces, and its digital counterpart.
photographynoun
The occupation of taking (and often printing) photographs.
Webster Dictionary
Photographynoun
the science which relates to the action of light on sensitive bodies in the production of pictures, the fixation of images, and the like
Etymology: [Photo- + -graphy: cf. F. photographie.]
Photographynoun
the art or process of producing pictures by this action of light
Etymology: [Photo- + -graphy: cf. F. photographie.]
Freebase
Photography
Photography is the art, science, and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor. Typically, a lens is used to focus the light reflected or emitted from objects into a real image on the light-sensitive surface inside a camera during a timed exposure. The result in an electronic image sensor is an electrical charge at each pixel, which is electronically processed and stored in a digital image file for subsequent display or processing. The result in a photographic emulsion is an invisible latent image, which is later chemically developed into a visible image, either negative or positive depending on the purpose of the photographic material and the method of processing. A negative image on film is traditionally used to photographically create a positive image on a paper base, known as a print, either by using an enlarger or by contact printing. Photography has many uses for business, science, manufacturing, art, recreational purposes, and mass communication.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Photography
fō-tog′ra-fi, n. the art of producing pictures by the action of light on chemically prepared surfaces.—n. Phō′tograph, a picture so produced.—v.t. to make a picture of by means of photography.—ns. Phōtog′rapher, Phōtog′raphist.—adj. Phōtograph′ic, -al.—adv. Phōtograph′ically. [Gr. phōs, light, graphein, to draw.]
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Photography
Method of making images on a sensitized surface by exposure to light or other radiant energy.
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Rank popularity for the word 'photography' in Nouns Frequency: #2811
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The numerical value of photography in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of photography in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of photography in a Sentence
A lot of the photography that I was seeing was just photography of dead bodies, i didn't feel those pictures were really telling me anything extra apart from somebody being brutally killed, and once you've seen a couple of those pictures you understand what's happening.
Photography is an art of teleporting the past into the future.
He really was one of the greats, he was the founding figure of modernism in photography and the modern woman in fashion photography, as well as modern portraiture.
There's no way I can take a camera and just do street photography in Morocco. People will get aggressive.
I love it when I can share my love of photography with someone else, and then see them go from not being able to turn a camera on to shooting in manual mode in a couple of hours.
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- fotografíaAragonese
- تصوير, فوتوغرافيا, التصويرArabic
- fotoqrafiyaAzerbaijani
- фатагра́фіяBelarusian
- фотогра́фияBulgarian
- kɔtɛbaBambara
- ফটোগ্রাফি, ফটোগ্রাফীBengali
- luc'hskeudennerezhBreton
- fotografiaCatalan, Valencian
- fotugrafiaCorsican
- fotografování, fotografieCzech
- фотографиChuvash
- ffotograffiaethWelsh
- fotografi, fotograferingDanish
- FotografieGerman
- φωτογραφία, φωτογραφικήGreek
- fotartoEsperanto
- fotografíaSpanish
- fotograafiaEstonian
- argazkigintzaBasque
- عکاسیPersian
- valokuvaus, valokuvaaminenFinnish
- photographieFrench
- fotografy, fotografieWestern Frisian
- grianghrafadóireachtIrish
- fotografíaGalician
- צילוםHebrew
- छायाचित्र, फोटोग्राफी, फ़ोटोग्राफ़ीHindi
- fényképezésHungarian
- fotografiIndonesian
- fotografiaItalian
- צילוםHebrew
- 撮影, 写真術, 写真撮影Japanese
- ឆាយាលេខន៍, សិល្បៈថតរូប, ថតរូបKhmer
- 사진술, 사진Korean
- Photography, photographiaLatin
- fotografijaLithuanian
- fotogrāfijaLatvian
- fotografu, fotografijaMaltese
- fotografieDutch
- fotografi, fotograferingNorwegian
- fotografiaPolish
- fotografiaPortuguese
- fotografia, fotografieRomanian
- фотогра́фия, фотографияRussian
- fotografija, фотографијаSerbo-Croatian
- fotografiaAlbanian
- fotografi, fotograferingSwedish
- புகைப்படம்Tamil
- ఫోటోగ్రఫీTelugu
- fotoğrafçılıkTurkish
- фотографія, фотогра́фіяUkrainian
- فوٹو گرافیUrdu
- nhiếp ảnhVietnamese
- kölafotograf, litamag, fotograf, fotogafVolapük
- fotografeyeWalloon
- פאָטאָגראַפיעYiddish
- 摄影Chinese
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